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    Jews and the Olympics

    Cover of Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
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    Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
    Andrew Maraniss
    Cover of Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
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    Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
    Oliver Hilmes; Jefferson Chase, trans.
    Cover of The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
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    The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
    Ron Kaplan
    Cover of From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
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    From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
    Craig Darch
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    Max Baer and the Star of David
    Jay Neugeboren
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    The Berlin Boxing Club
    Robert Sharenow
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    Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
    Jeffrey S. Gurock
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    Michael Brenner; Gideon Reuveni, eds.
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    Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot
    Alan S. Katchen
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    Don Nardo
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    Joseph Siegman
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    Aly Raisman
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    Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds.
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    Dov Moshe Lipman
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